Being a student of Chinese rather than European history, I had no special insight into the intricate issues that excited Europeanists. Newly admitted to graduate school the year that book appeared, I was tasked to read it. As the co-editor of The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, which became required reading for every graduate student of history as soon as it appeared in 1976, Parker brought the puzzle of this general crisis to the attention of his discipline: was the century as disastrous as Hobsbawm and Trevor-Roper claimed (it was, and probably worse), and if so, how can it be explained? Geoffrey Parker knows all this better than anyone. The Thirty Years War, he asserted, was not the century’s aberration but its norm. Five years later Hugh Trevor-Roper expanded this observation to include politics and society as well, as small monarchies struggled to organise themselves into larger public states at severe cost to their neighbours. Read 31 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Brings to life the horrors of war (depicted in Callots engrav. As early as 1954 Eric Hobsbawm mooted that Europe in the 17th century experienced a major economic crisis. The Thirty Years War by Geoffrey Parker The Thirty Years War book.

‘Professor Parker is one of the three most distinguished historians of early modern Europe’.The report that the 17th was a difficult century is hardly news. British Book News ' Although there are many books on the Thirty Years ' War. ‘The leading English-language historian of early modern Spain’. To travel in Parker’s company is always stimulating and illuminating’. ‘One of the most learned and thoughtful historians of the early modern period. Watch an interview with Geoffrey Parker, winner of the Dr A. Geoffrey is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso the Wise and winner of the Dr A. His other books include THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR, THE SPANISH ARMADA (with Colin Martin), THE MILITARY REVOLUTION and THE GRAND STRATEGY OF PHILIP II.

The book was published by Yale University Press in both the UK and the US in 2013.

His latest book, GLOBAL CRISIS: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century, is a narrative account of world history in the mid-17th century, describing the interplay of climatic, demographic, political and ideological conditions that brought about the first global crisis of the Modern Age. Geoffrey has been a university teacher for 45 years and has written, co-written or edited 33 history books and over 100 articles. Andrews in Britain, British Columbia in Canada, and Illinois and Yale in the United States. Geoffrey Parker is the Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at the Ohio State University and has previously held chairs at the universities of St.